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Are you equally supportive of ALL religions, including Islam? Are you okay with YOUR tax dollars funding Muslim madrassas?

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"One hopes, at least, that Trump will henceforth refrain from complaining that undocumented immigrants broke the law, seeing as he has just instructed his Treasury Department not to take action against pastors who still, technically, break a law which is still on the books." The author needs to stop to stop playing lawyer and judge and stick to topics in which he ostensibly has some expertise. In this country we still have a first amendment right to say virtually anything that we want (including pastors), so a pastor speaking from the pulpit about certain political matters, is not "breaking the law." He merely (at least in theory) is risking the tax exempt status of his non-for-profit organization. He is not forbidden from speaking under the threat of some criminal action.

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Thanks for the response. I was taught in seminary classes (1964-65) that double effect was a valid principle. The example then given was a drug store clerk selling contraceptives and the conclusion was she was moral in performing her job duties, despite strictures against contraception. (I long since have rejected the notion of contraception as immoral, as have most Christians of all denominations). I do think that principle applies in the Kansas hospital case, where the aborting of the fetus was simply a necessary step in saving a life rather than killing two lives by inaction. So I do not accept that moral acts have an "intrinsic" status. We always have excepted massive killing in war, even if it involves "collateral" unintended damage.

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Why could he not just say, "I have no comment. I'm so busy making America great again that this is just not something I am going to discuss nor do I care about"?

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Hey! Not cool! I've been to Turtles. The food's not THAT bad. Maybe he thought he was fighting the Ninja Turtles?

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At the cesspool that is the modern world, yes daily.

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You make it quite clear that you feel opposing injustice is a waste of time, and those who do so do it for the worst of reasons. I'm afraid that the response I would like to make would be deemed uncivil. What I will say is that your claim to be a Christian is questionable at best. I suggest that you first read Isaiah 58, and then you have a long talk with your spiritual advisor about what it means. If he tells you that what you are doing is fine, then you need to get a new advisor. Concern for others is central to being a Christian. And your concern had better extend beyond your family.

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Soon men won't bother with women, they will become gay by choice.

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Germany wants to ban Scientology. USA wiped out Branch Davideans and is Islamophobic. China bans Falun Gong. Same Difference.

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I'm sure General Patton would appreciate being compared to a draft-dodging New York huckster.

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Taxies in the lower mainland are Hybrid and we have electric charging stations.

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Let people have a place to sleep. I came upon a homeless vet sleeping on the grass in the middle of the day, so thin, I wasn't sure if he was alive. He was starving. He was sleeping there because they won't wake him up if he isn't covered - and there is nowhere you can rest at night where the police will leave you alone. Sleeping, is a human right. The homeless have to hide to sleep because the police won't let them. Leave them ALONE.

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Republicans call defunding public education "starving the beast of government." And of course since St. Ronaldus Magnus said that government is the problem, well, you get what you don't pay for - in this case an unenlightened electorate. And that is just as Republicans want it - all the easier to manipulate a dumbed-down public.

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Honestly with all these theories from 9-11, Obama's birth certificate, and many more can anyone tell us of one that turned out to be true?

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The "gubermint" has an orchard filled with money trees where they go to pluck millions of dollars whenever a new "right" or "need" is identified, usually by the people who will benefit if those dollars are sent to them.

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Anyone who does not respect other peoples property has less value than dog poop.

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They're all coming in and they're in the country to stay.. Our border guards are teddy bears,..and we have a socialist PM at the head of the country. Let's change that...fast! Let's remind our leaders that this is not Italy.

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Your CEO friend meant if it ever became emotionally easy, I'm sure he'd tell you that if someone was clearly incompetent and hurting the business then the best thing, for everyone involved would be to demote the person. And that's what's being said here these incompetent buffoons need to be demoted, their elected MP's they can't be fired, only not elected next time.

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This is a "Triumphant Editorial". That is to say " I will triumph over anything and everything that was said or exhibited or on display at the RNC. But if you take the I out of triumphant you have a "Trump" phant which has no I or Me but maybe what the American People want.

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Trudeau spoke of "the middle class" from day one. To him we each fit into a particular "class" box, a "gender" box", a "race" box, etc, and we're all in conflict with one another. His different, identifiable class concept is Marxist-hued, which you'd expect from a family that was friends with Castro, Aga Khan, etc.

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These are some awesome tips! I believe body language is one of the most important aspects of attracting women. So before you meet this girl in real life make sure you are demonstrating dominating but not domineering body language. Avoid facing a women directly (90% of women get turned off by this) but once things start to escalate then turn your body toward her. I also wrote a whole bunch of other tips here: http://taoofbadassreviews.com/wp/optin/

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The GTA has an abundance of under-used above-ground rights of way. None of the listed cities, above, would ever waste the assets that lie idle in the GTA. Unthinkable. . Toronto has existing, perfectly good, rights-of way from Union to Richmond Hill that would solve at least 80% of the eastern half of the DRL problem and interchange with the Eglinton Crosstown - without any tunnelling. With political will, it could easily commence at least partial operation in less than three years. The stations could be fancied-up later. . But no, we can't do anything quickly or economically. . No. We blow the whole wad on a useless political boondoggle in Scarborough, or on spending 15 years boring an eye-wateringly expensive tunnel to Pape - that isn't even needed, or that could be built later, anyhow. . It only took six years to defeat Nazi Germany. But it takes 15 years to build a tunnel to Pape? . This is the squandered opportunity of the last five years. . No compromises ??? . A tragedy.

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What??? This is not about assimilation, it's about people who can NOT pronounce other names.... read the comments from "Justin" "Geoffrey" who have anglo names and others who use a shortened version, Education has nothing to do with this article. The Doctor had an article published likely because he's educated, it was well written. I do NOT care what your education is. Entrepreneurs and small business owners are the bedrock of Canada, I do care that people are contributing back to society and volunteering.

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Rick: As I'm sure you know, I absolutely believe in your investment approach. I also realize that we have both learned from those who have gone before us, who have studied this subject matter in detail over many years and detailed actual investment returns. Just as importantly, there are several individuals who regularly provide sound input in these pages which likey will, if followed, help the average investor become above average. While not everyone would consider all of the comments to be CATegorically correct, most people who have actually become and continue to be successful investors would. SFI

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I don’t know about you guys but I am getting tired of all this winning. Hahahhahahahahahahah!

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And not only married men, but married and unmarried women.

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Insurance companies will insure drunk drivers; they just charge a lot to do so.

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But conservatives don't campaign as you want to pretend they do. They say..."life is messy, life is filled with hard tradeoffs, imperfect answers, deal with it, grow in it." Read Thomas Sowell's "Conflict of Visions" to better understand what you want to write about. It's a classic. He wrote that book long before Hillary ran for office, but he nailed her and her type to a T.

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Progressivism - the quote was "from Trump's 7 bad lands". The Boston Marathon bombers were from Chechnya. The Orlando shooter was born in the US and his parents were from Afghanistan. Neither of those places are on the banned list. And you are still far more likely to be injured in a car accident than a terrorist attack.

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you're such a lady. flagged again

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If you are a male better forget it.... : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjB83vcWhCY

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This morning the cable news networks dropped everything to focus on a Trump cabinet meeting, where nothing happened except for a staged photo-op and a round robin love fest so every cabinet member, including Mike Pence said their names and pledged fealty to King Trump.

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Please America doesn't want the problems Europe is now facing. Wait till Trump ends sanctuary cities and takes he lead with the help of Russia to exterminate ISIS. The protesters are going to be bouncing off each other runing from one protest to the next! Yes vetting people from Iran and Syrah, the horror of it all, what joke!!!! The left wing media still lives in deep denial and desperately needs to context with the American voters outside of its ivory towers. One has to muse at the fact that Clinton didn't win the popular vote on either of his terms but it's the Trump administration that is being described as illegitimate!!!! One thing is certain, it's going to make for great media.

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How can you stabilize a market without controlling costs? By throwing more money that we don't have or aren't willing to spend (note the continual budget deficits) to fully fund? Same as we do with SS, Medicare, Medicaid? Throw what's under-funded on the debt? Irresponsible.

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Donie: that is cruel, but so very true. PK always plays his very best when at the edge of things, this is one of those moments.

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Motley Fool motto; It takes a thief to catch a thief...or something like that :):):)

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CriticalReader, DO NOT EXPORT YOUR URBAN CITY OF HONOLULU HOMELESS CRISIS TO CENTRAL OAHU, as the Problem Democrats and the City and County of Urban Honolulu Government Caused. Anybody at Honolulu that voted Democrat MUST be made to have a Homeless Family living at their Apartment.

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Can't wait to see the first out house with a wifi logo and a satellite dish.....

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This was looking pretty good until I got to the part about "a number of improvements that would be paid for by the state." If this is a viable business model then there is private capital out there to fund it. The taxpayers should not "go in the hole" to maximize private industry's profits.

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You're pathetic.

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Good acts of humility and docility. Silent protests just after the Confiteor. I like the sincerity.

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It's ridiculous. People are afraid of their own shadows.

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We have been at that point for many decades.

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It is not journalists who are making the allegations, it is the US intelligence community. You are promoting "alternative facts" here in trying to blame the media for reporting what the intelligence community is saying. Political rumour mongering is like the promotion of all the Clinton "scandals" (including murder) by the loony right-wing media. There is most certainly something rotten about the ties Trump and his cohort have with Putin. There is no doubt that the Russians aided Trump in his campaign.

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"Developing countries always have very rapid growth levels at first, leveling off later" The technical name is a Sigma Curve "Besides, its not a "cesspool"!" You may have missed Calgary's comment

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Thinking the same thing. Once we went with a net profits tax the industry's accountants and film flam men can lard up their write-offs in such convoluted ways that our auditors could never unravel them, if we ever bothered to conduct audits. Just put a meter on the pipeline and charge X% for our oil.

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Jerk reality. Get real1 Trump is fake news.

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Sandia: I think this is VERY close to the final truth!!!! Kind of reminds me of Trump's attempt at literature -- tweeting his thoughts, a la James Joyce. (Wonder if the Globe ever thought that their software would be used for such a 'noble' venture.....

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Having a weak, insane, and chaotic president is dangerous.

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This is the start of the end of ICE cars. As it is, MS/MX now outsell their direct competitors. M3 is very likely going to kill off all luxury ICE vehicles. The other ones to die will be the H2 fuel cell vehicles. It will be obvious to all except the most ardent, that H2 does not stand a chance. https://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/hydrogen_locations.html vs Electric https://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html https://supercharge.info/

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and you are one of the first who seems to think that vouchers really help anybody.

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Yet Donald J. Trump remains President of the United States, will almost certainly remain President of the United States until January 2021, and perhaps even January, 2025. And if Neil Gorsuch, tens of federal judgeships, and a massive rollback of federal regulations is "flame-out", then by all means let the Republicans keep flaming out. In fact, here's hoping that we flame-out more by Trump appointing another Supreme Court justice or two. You know, because it's a stillborn administration.

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I went to your site and unfortunately I am not an engineer to understand what you propose. Is it okay for me to run this by an engineer friend of mine?

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Brian, Thank you for the nice words. My article was sincere in that ultimately, having two or more strong, but sensible political parties is needed to keep a Democracy alive. The highest form of Government, is a Representative type of system where the leaders (full of imperfect humans) are running the show in a way that We The People approve of. Too many years of the divide becoming wider and wider - especially in the last 8 years - is why Donald Trump became elected. Too much centralized power leads to Tyranny (i.e. failure). That was the Legacy of Obama. When asked who will I vote for: I always reply, start with the understanding that Liberty & Freedom is what Humans yearn for. The farthest from that is forms of Tyranny. Whoever will pursue polices closer to the former, gets my vote. That is why I voted for Donald Trump. Not Donald himself, but his promised policies were/are closer to the necessary cure for our ailing Country, than what Hillary wanted to do. Gerald

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"In recent months, Canada has stood out for its positive contributions" According to you Canada 'stood out' by getting a UN resolution passed to condemn atrocities in Aleppo and saying someone should investigate them. That's not exactly 'standing out' by any definition of the term nor does it explain why Canada should be the chosen one to get international justice in Syria much less do it now. The ICC has Canada under investigation for committing its own war atrocities in Afghanistan. The UN itself found Canada to be guilty of denying human rights to its own citizens. Your recent sale of billions of dollars of arms to Saudi Arabia, the worst human rights violator in the world has gotten Canada condemned by every human rights organization that hears about it. This article is a white wash of Canadian behavior, indoctrinates Canadians in believing myths and contributes to the UN being a mockery. Ironically the UN is a favorite target for being mocked by Canadians.

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Jehovah Witnesses are opposed to blood transfusions. What happens if they protest insurance paying for transfusions for their employees?

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I'm talking about the late sixties. Often young boys don't pay much attention to fashion. Here are some photos of passengers from the 1930's to the 1960's, in their finery: http://www.stylist.co.uk/travel/the-glamourous-golden-age-of-air-travel-aeroplane-plane-1950s-photos-retro As you can see from the photos from the sixties, all the men are in suits and ties and some women are even wearing hats. (and I mean hats, not baseball caps on backwards)

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More to the point. She isn't seeking to be Conservative leader and thus not seeking to be a Prime Minister who could trade favours.

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"Why re-opening NAFTA would be good for Canada" Please keep in mind what's good for "Canada" is usually not good for Canadian working folks, "Canada", especially in economic matters, means Canada Inc., a branch plant of the world-wide billionaire multinational corporate oligarchy. Free Trade, since the passing of NAFTA, has been bad for Canadian workers, bad for Canadian democracy, and bad for Canadian sovereignty. If you can hardly recognize Canada any more it's because Canada is a post-nation international part of the global economy. Canada - and Free Trade - isn't about democracy, progressivism or economic prosperity for all. It's about maximizing profits for the international 1%, shoveling up Canada's wealth to the top 20%.

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The real story here begins with LTD and the Mayor of Springfield conspiring to eliminate the true stakeholders from the process of planning. They screwed the taxpayer and it should be a crime. The Main Street stakeholders advisory committee appointed by City of Springfield consisted of 17 handpicked people. One Mike Eyster was the former board president of LTD. Another Randy Hledck was the president of Wildish Land and Development. Yes he works for the same company group that was the only bidder and awarded the 56.5 million dollar contract to build the West Eugene EmX. There were 9 0r 10 other members of the committee were public entity employees with no property ownership in the corridor. This group of course advised to build EmX on Main street despite obvious conflicts of interest. During the process LTD, City of Eugene, and Springfields city councils and Mayor were informed of the conflicts in public meetings and all chose to ignore them. Corruption is the foundation.

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have you tought you would, maybe, lose Tequila, pignatas, watermelons,avocados and winter in the sun!

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Not her, the ad agency that ran the billboards... "Buric admitted that the short advertising campaign turned out to be “very successful” because of the wide publicity it received both locally and internationally." Marketing. Simple. Take a chill already.

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The people making money out of other people's misery are the Government connected insiders who have squirrelled away $300 Billion dollars of missing oil money - THAT is economic warfare. Economic warfare is taking business that were providing services and jobs to Venezuelans, nationalizing them, and then denying them capital so output collapses; It is taking productive farms and handing them over to people who have no experience of farming so output collapses and the country can't feed itself; It is giving away greater and greater amounts of dwindling oil output for free because you have loaded the country up with debt; It is giving entire industries away to foreign Governments, then paying them a premium for useless products. And who sold GS the bonds? Some pension fund who was afraid they couldn't meet their obligations when Vene finally implodes?

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Back before everyone became Snowflakes or Professional Victims, this would have been met with a simple head shaking (in the negative), and the comment "It's in poor taste". And that would have been the end of that.

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A million thanks to Representative Andy Josephson for the courage to introduce, advance and win a vote for a concept that most Alaskans approve of. There are many good reasons to support a protected area for wolves and one of the most convincing reasons is economic. Three trappers in the area kill 3 or 4 wolves, cash in on $600-800, while every visitor to the park who wants nothing more than to see wild nature in a relatively unmanaged setting, leaves dissatisfied. Visitors bring millions of dollars. Trappers $1000. On that argument alone, its a no brainer. But no-brainerism is Giessel's expertise. Without even reading the house bill, she belched that its an "environmentalist agenda". If sound science and overwhelming public support get snuffed in the Senate, it will be because of the weak-minded, sclerotic narrowness of senators like Giessel and Coghill.

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"As an oligarch, i'm concerned with policies that benefit me too blatantly. At least try to fool the workers into thinking you're helping them. We have to make this look like a democracy in order to maintain legitimacy, remember?"

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. No, she didn't create a false comparison. Trump was endorsed by neo Nazis, Trump failed to denounce neoNazis and Trump installed a man in the White House who promotes neoNazi dogma. Nothing false about her comparison.

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Seems the Oscars have taken a heavy dose of "Affirmative Action". Silly.

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remember it is the republican congress that has strongly contributed to all the problems.

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Go! didn't have enough seats to be a threat to take more than 10-15% of the market share. HA had a look at Aloha's books a few years earlier and knew exactly how much pain they needed to inflict on Aloha. Go! just gave them the excuse to do so.

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Probably a major reason that Obama refused to intervene in the Syrian Civil War. Post Assad, there will be endless bloodshed. Lebanon went through 16 years of ethno-religious civil war before the Syrian Army invaded and imposed peace.

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Jay, the 2nd amendment, being an amendment, is after the main body of the constitution. And the body says the senate will advise and (if they see fit), consent to the president's appointment. Without their consent, the nominee isn't confirmed. There's nothing in there requiring hearings; sans the senate's consent, with or without hearings, the nominee remains just that, a nominee.

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This continues to be bothersome for our RCMP offices and CSIS offices as well as to the reader. CSIS began in 1984--- so while the rest of the work places in Canada were participating in inclusive workshops at that time or how to handle harassment in the workplace issues, what were these offices doing?? That was thirty three years ago. One would have assumed that inclusion was a given. There are two sides to every story and then there is the truth.

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DD From your language I'd bet I'm older than you-by maybe half a century So for what it's worth, I don't believe you need fear sounding cynical. Normally, or overly I'd suggest instead you worry about sounding condescending and supercilious. Labels that at best get you ignored. At worst earn you disdain and disregard I mean, no one gave you permission to speak for us. So you have no right to declare "We" aren't expected to think critically, etc. Besides "critical thinking" is a meaningless junk phrase coined by Educators unable to teach "Disciplined reasoning" You might also note: Those who can most help you in the future won't care about what you Aren't. What you are Against. What you're afraid of sounding like Only whether you stand For anything. Whether you have the courage publicly say it. Can intelligently defend it. And especially whether you do something to achieve it, or just sit an whine Your generation's turn to grow up. Don't like your world? Well, it will be your fault

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Gold star family. The father sells immigration which is at odds with Trump's policy. Everyone has an agenda.

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Of course no one in Iraq holds a grudge .................. from when Bush and Cheney used 'shock and awe' to leave piles of women and children dead .

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I wonder if Mbalula is the minister that 2 weeks ago Julius said was about to be arrested? Maybe there is more to come.

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Gay marriage is not legal in Israel. Nice try.

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What many "Christians" don't know or don't acknowledge is that Christmas didn't originate as a reason to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Dec 25 didn't become Jesus' birthday celebration until 300 years after the Big Event, and even then, Pope Julius (?) picked the date, then sometime after that Emperor Constantine decided that everyone would be Christian. The pagans were partying and celebrating the season long before Christians got on board.

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The CIA never claimed that Saddam had WMDs...it was the Republicans. The same Republican Party that you seem to trust.

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In answer to your reply, Farce, dead people and plenty of them, mass arrests, and torture. That is a start.

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Don't these #%$@ers have anything better to do??

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Will DR's offices have hitching posts where I can park my unicorn?

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You don't own a phone?

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Great article, thanks, Francis. Perhaps the only deterrent against avarice is FEAR - fear of consequences. In this country, impunity reigns supreme. Therefore, apart from a few luckless blighters, do not expect justice soon.

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Obviously they do, it just isn't going to happen though. Also, I suspect he wasn't telling CD personally to shut-up. While initially taken aback by the sentence, I think DD was writing more along the lines of "It is time to 'shut up' ... ". But I don't know DD's true intentions.

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Yep. A good example was after Charles fumbled, Joseph was giving him a speech and it was clear Charles wasn't listening. Charles had an expression that said "I'm pissed I fumbled. Take your college rah-rah speech and get out of my face"

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duali Right, Japan has low income inequality by social conditions. It is built in to their lives. Low income inequality was also achieved in Sweden, through legislation. According to Pickett and Wilkinson, it makes no difference how it is achieved but better living correlates with low income inequality.

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Welcome to America: Land of the WMD, home of the crey NRA.

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If the choice is between breaking a promise or having a referundum , then break the promise, and then point out that an honest attempt had been made. An honest attempt was made to by forming a multi - partisan committee (in which no Party had a majority, as what usually happens on committees) which could not get consensus, despite the fact that going in there was only one party, the Conservative party, who were against any change, For this committee to come back with a referendum is a disgrace. For these Parliamentarians to shirk their responsibility in such a blatant manner shows them no to be worthy of their position. Referendums is not part of a democracy. Besides, what would a referendum look like - six choices, 3 choices, yes or no and to what?

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Maybe it can merge with the Clinton Foundation.

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Another example of Eugene Progressive liberals living in a bubble as one more business leaves Eugene with good paying family wage jobs. Stupid is as stupid does, welcome to Eugene where common sense is nonexistent.

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Yeah, I know. Not the quickest of cats.

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Kerry's a hack....in a few months the UN will be history, as will the Palestinians.

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Could I please have your thoughts on why this is a public health issue. Notwithstanding the obvious sadness that accompanies all death, the personal risk awareness of drug usage is particularly high. Drug users KNOW that usage begets a high risk of death. Why is death from personal use a public health problem?

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Turns out pot is not so easy to grow

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Translation: I hate government workers.. I hate government workers... oh wait I have to call the police (govt worker) or fire dept (govt worker) or ambulance (govt worker) to take me to the hospital (govt worker) because I had a heart attack writing drivel using electricity (govt worker) about how I hate government workers.

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I remember him waking up on his bed floating in the lake. RIP.

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Reporters would do well to find experts that- in my opinion- are fair and impartial. In my opinion Janek Mayer simply collects hundreds of thousands of public dollars to tell the Senate Majority whatever BS it wants to hear. In a Sen. Resources hearing on 4-16- 2015 Sen. Wielchowski elicits from Tsafos and Mayer that they have not filed financial disclosures with Alaska as is required by law. Further- it appears that almost all their "business" is with the Senate majority- again, collecting our public dollars like pigs at a trough. http://lba.akleg.gov/download/contracts/mayer/janak_mayer_contract_01-19-2015.pdf It was the incompetent Senate, and incompetent "advisers" that lead the way with the disaster that is SB-138- a scheme to make the Alaska LNG project vastly more expensive than it needs to be, along a route that makes not a bit of sense.

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Dogs, I sometimes wonder if you even comprehend words written in English.

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